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John Sutherland (author)

January 01, 1970

John Andrew Sutherland (born 9 October 1938)[1] is a British academic, newspaper columnist and author. He is Emeritus Lord Northcliffe Professor of Modern English Literature at University College London.

John Sutherland
BornJohn Andrew Sutherland
9 October 1938 (1938-10-09) (age 85)
London, England
OccupationWriter, academic
Alma materUniversity of Leicester
University of Edinburgh
Genreliterary criticism

Biography edit

After graduating from the University of Leicester in 1964, Sutherland gained a PhD from the University of Edinburgh,[2] where he began his academic career as an assistant lecturer.[3] He specialises in Victorian fiction, 20th-century literature, and the history of publishing. Among his works of scholarship is the Longman Companion to Victorian Fiction (known in the US as Stanford Companion, 1989), a comprehensive encyclopaedia of Victorian fiction. A second edition was published in 2009 with 900 biographical entries, synopses of over 600 novels, and extensive background material on publishers, reviewers, and readers.[4]

Apart from writing regularly for The Guardian newspaper, Sutherland has published a number of books of literary scholarship and is editing the forthcoming Oxford Companion to Popular Fiction. The series of books which starts with Is Heathcliff a Murderer? has brought him a wide readership. The books in the series are collections of essays about classic fiction from the Victorian period. Carefully going over the text, Sutherland highlights apparent inconsistencies, anachronisms and oversights, and explains references which the modern reader is likely to overlook. In some cases, he demonstrates the likelihood that the author simply forgot a minor detail. In others, apparent slips on the part of the author are presented as evidence that something is going on below the surface of the book which is not explicitly described (such as his explanation for why Sherlock Holmes should mis-address Miss Stoner as Miss Roylott in "The Adventure of the Speckled Band").

In 2001, he published Last Drink to LA, a chronicle of his alcoholism, drug addiction, and return to sobriety. In 2004, he published a biography of Stephen Spender. In 2005, he was involved in Dot Mobile's project to translate summaries and quotes of classic literature into text messaging shorthand.[5][6] In the same year, he was also Chair of Judges for the Man Booker Prize, despite having caused some controversy in 1999 when he revealed details of disagreements between his fellow judges in his Guardian column.[7] In 2007, he published an autobiography, The Boy Who Loved Books. The same year, his annotated edition of Robert Louis Stevenson's The Black Arrow was released by Penguin Books. In 2011, he published Lives of the Novelists: A History of Fiction in 294 Lives, an 800-page book containing 294 idiosyncratic sketches of famous and lesser-known novelists selected from the past 400 years.

He has also provided the forewords and introductions to a number of titles in the Oxford World's Classics series; for authors such as William Makepeace Thackeray, Anthony Trollope and Wilkie Collins. Similarly for various titles published by Penguin Classics, the Folio Society and others. A number of his earlier books have the author as "J. Sutherland" or "J. A. Sutherland", and should not be confused with the scholar James R. Sutherland who was also a Lord Northcliffe Professor.

Partial bibliography edit

  • Thackeray at Work, Athlone Press, 1974, ISBN 978-0485111460
  • Victorian Novelists and Publishers, Athlone Press, 1976, ISBN 978-0485111613
  • Fiction and the Fiction Industry, Athlone Press, 1978, ISBN 978-0485111774
  • Bestsellers: Popular Fiction of the 1970's, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1981, ISBN 978-0710007506
  • Offensive Literature: Decensorship in Britain 1960-1982, Junction Books, 1982, ISBN 978-0862450656
  • The Longman Companion to Victorian Fiction, Longman, 1988; or (US edition) The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction, Stanford University Press, 1989. (revised edition, 2009) ISBN 978-1408203903
  • Mrs Humphry Ward: Eminent Victorian, Pre-Eminent Edwardian, Oxford University Press, 1990, ISBN 978-0198185871
  • Victorian Fiction: Writers, Publishers, Readers, Palgrave Macmillan, 1995, ISBN 978-0333632864
  • The Life of Walter Scott. A Critical Biography, Wiley-Blackwell, 1995, ISBN 978-1557862310
  • The Oxford Book of English Love Stories, Oxford University Press, 1996, ISBN 978-0192142375 (editor)
  • Is Heathcliff a Murderer? Puzzles in Nineteenth-century Fiction, Oxford University Press, 1996, ISBN 0-19-282516-X
  • Can Jane Eyre Be Happy? More Puzzles in Classic Fiction, Oxford University Press, 1997, ISBN 0-19-283309-X
  • Where Was Rebecca Shot? Puzzles, Curiosities and Conundrums in Modern Fiction, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1998, ISBN 978-0297841463
  • Who Betrays Elizabeth Bennet? Further Puzzles in Classic Fiction, Oxford University Press, 1999
  • Henry V, War Criminal? & Other Shakespeare Puzzles, (w/ Cedric Watts), Oxford University Press, 2000, ISBN 0-19-283879-2
  • The Literary Detective: 100 Puzzles in Classic Fiction, Oxford University Press, 2000, ISBN 978-0192100368 (omnibus edition)
  • Last Drink to LA, Faber and Faber, 2001, ISBN 978-0-571-20855-5
  • Literary Lives: Intimate Biographies of the Famous by the Famous, Oxford University Press, 2001, ISBN 978-0198604068 (editor)
  • Reading the Decades: Fifty Years of British History Through the Nation's Bestsellers, BBC Books, 2002, ISBN 978-0563488101
  • Stephen Spender: The Authorized Biography, Viking, 2004, ISBN 978-0670883035
  • How to Read a Novel: A User's Guide, Profile, 2006, ISBN 978-1861979469
  • The Boy Who Loved Books: A Memoir, John Murray, 2007, ISBN 978-0-7195-6431-4
  • Bestsellers: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford University Press, 2007, ISBN 978-0199214891
  • Curiosities of Literature: A Book-lover's Anthology of Literary Erudition, Random House, 2008, ISBN 9781905211975
  • So You Think You Know Jane Austen? A Literary Quizbook, Oxford University Press, 2009, ISBN 978-0199538997 (with Deirdre Le Faye)
  • 50 Literature Ideas You Really Need to Know, Quercus, 2010, ISBN 978-1848660601; or (US edition) How Literature Works: 50 Key Concepts, Oxford University Press, 2011, ISBN 978-0199794201
  • Love, Sex, Death and Words: Surprising Tales from a Year in Literature, Icon Books, 2010, ISBN 978-1848311640 (with Stephen Fender)
  • Lives of the Novelists: A History of Fiction in 294 Lives, Profile Books, 2011, ISBN 978-1846681578
  • Stephen Spender: New Selected Journals, 1939-1995, Faber & Faber, 2012, ISBN 978-0571237579 (editor with Lara Feigel)
  • The Connell Guide to F. Scott Fitzgerald's Great Gatsby, Connell Publishing, 2012, ISBN 978-1907776014 (with Jolyon Connell)
  • The Connell Guide to Charles Dickens's Great Expectations, Connell Publishing, 2012, ISBN 978-1907776038 (with Jolyon Connell)
  • The Connell Guide to Jane Austen's Emma, Connell Publishing, 2012, ISBN 978-1907776137 (with Jolyon Connell)
  • The Dickens Dictionary: An A-Z of Britain's Greatest Novelist, Icon Books, 2012, ISBN 978-1848313910
  • A Little History of Literature, Yale University Press, 2013, ISBN 978-0300186857
  • The Connell Guide to Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway, Connell Publishing, 2014, ISBN 978-1907776267 (with Susanna Hislop)
  • How to be Well Read, Random House Books, 2014, ISBN 978-1847946409
  • Jumbo: The Unauthorised Biography of a Victorian Sensation, Aurum Press, 2014, ISBN 978-1781312445
  • How Good is Your Grammar?, Short Books, 2015, ISBN 978-1780722573
  • The War on the Old, Biteback, 2016, ISBN 978-1785901713
  • Orwell's Nose: A Pathological Biography, Reaktion Books, 2016, ISBN 978-1780236483
  • The War on the Young, Biteback, 2018, ISBN 978-1785903397
  • The Connell Guide to Jane Austen's Mansfield Park, Connell Publishing, 2018, ISBN 978-1907776304 (with Jolyon Connell)
  • Literary Landscapes: Charting the Worlds of Classical Literature, Black Dog & Leventhal, 2018, ISBN 978-0316561822 (General editor)
  • Rogue Publisher, 'The Prince of Puffers': The Life and Works of the Publisher Henry Colburn, EER, 2018, ISBN 978-1911204558
  • The Secret Trollope: Anthony Trollope Uncovered, EER, 2019, ISBN 978-1912224456
  • Monica Jones, Philip Larkin and Me: Her Life and Long Loves, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2021, ISBN 978-1474620185
  • Triggered Literature: Cancellation, Stealth Censorship and Cultural Warfare, Biteback, 2023, ISBN 978-1785908170

References edit

  1. ^ Who's Who 2002.
  2. ^ J. A., Sutherland (1973). Thackeray at work (PhD thesis). hdl:1842/17669.
  3. ^ "40 years on" (retirement thoughts), The Guardian – Higher education, 5 May 2004.
  4. ^ Longman Companion to Victorian Fiction, 2nd edition, 2009, ISBN 978-1-4082-0390-3
  5. ^ Crown, Sarah (17 November 2005). "Shkspr in2 txt - wnt hlp w hmwk bt wil mk us laf ; )". The Guardian. Retrieved 14 November 2023.
  6. ^ Milmo, Cahal (17 November 2005). "Literature's gr8 txts edited 4 the mobile generation". The Independent. Retrieved 14 November 2023.
  7. ^ Reynolds, Nigel (5 January 2005). "Protests at 'infuriating' Booker judge". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 10 May 2018.

January 01, 1970
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John Andrew Sutherland born 9 October 1938 1 is a British academic newspaper columnist and author He is Emeritus Lord Northcliffe Professor of Modern English Literature at University College London John SutherlandBornJohn Andrew Sutherland9 October 1938 1938 10 09 age 85 London EnglandOccupationWriter academicAlma materUniversity of LeicesterUniversity of EdinburghGenreliterary criticismBiography editAfter graduating from the University of Leicester in 1964 Sutherland gained a PhD from the University of Edinburgh 2 where he began his academic career as an assistant lecturer 3 He specialises in Victorian fiction 20th century literature and the history of publishing Among his works of scholarship is the Longman Companion to Victorian Fiction known in the US as Stanford Companion 1989 a comprehensive encyclopaedia of Victorian fiction A second edition was published in 2009 with 900 biographical entries synopses of over 600 novels and extensive background material on publishers reviewers and readers 4 Apart from writing regularly for The Guardian newspaper Sutherland has published a number of books of literary scholarship and is editing the forthcoming Oxford Companion to Popular Fiction The series of books which starts with Is Heathcliff a Murderer has brought him a wide readership The books in the series are collections of essays about classic fiction from the Victorian period Carefully going over the text Sutherland highlights apparent inconsistencies anachronisms and oversights and explains references which the modern reader is likely to overlook In some cases he demonstrates the likelihood that the author simply forgot a minor detail In others apparent slips on the part of the author are presented as evidence that something is going on below the surface of the book which is not explicitly described such as his explanation for why Sherlock Holmes should mis address Miss Stoner as Miss Roylott in The Adventure of the Speckled Band In 2001 he published Last Drink to LA a chronicle of his alcoholism drug addiction and return to sobriety In 2004 he published a biography of Stephen Spender In 2005 he was involved in Dot Mobile s project to translate summaries and quotes of classic literature into text messaging shorthand 5 6 In the same year he was also Chair of Judges for the Man Booker Prize despite having caused some controversy in 1999 when he revealed details of disagreements between his fellow judges in his Guardian column 7 In 2007 he published an autobiography The Boy Who Loved Books The same year his annotated edition of Robert Louis Stevenson s The Black Arrow was released by Penguin Books In 2011 he published Lives of the Novelists A History of Fiction in 294 Lives an 800 page book containing 294 idiosyncratic sketches of famous and lesser known novelists selected from the past 400 years He has also provided the forewords and introductions to a number of titles in the Oxford World s Classics series for authors such as William Makepeace Thackeray Anthony Trollope and Wilkie Collins Similarly for various titles published by Penguin Classics the Folio Society and others A number of his earlier books have the author as J Sutherland or J A Sutherland and should not be confused with the scholar James R Sutherland who was also a Lord Northcliffe Professor Partial bibliography editThackeray at Work Athlone Press 1974 ISBN 978 0485111460 Victorian Novelists and Publishers Athlone Press 1976 ISBN 978 0485111613 Fiction and the Fiction Industry Athlone Press 1978 ISBN 978 0485111774 Bestsellers Popular Fiction of the 1970 s Routledge amp Kegan Paul 1981 ISBN 978 0710007506 Offensive Literature Decensorship in Britain 1960 1982 Junction Books 1982 ISBN 978 0862450656 The Longman Companion to Victorian Fiction Longman 1988 or US edition The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction Stanford University Press 1989 revised edition 2009 ISBN 978 1408203903 Mrs Humphry Ward Eminent Victorian Pre Eminent Edwardian Oxford University Press 1990 ISBN 978 0198185871 Victorian Fiction Writers Publishers Readers Palgrave Macmillan 1995 ISBN 978 0333632864 The Life of Walter Scott A Critical Biography Wiley Blackwell 1995 ISBN 978 1557862310 The Oxford Book of English Love Stories Oxford University Press 1996 ISBN 978 0192142375 editor Is Heathcliff a Murderer Puzzles in Nineteenth century Fiction Oxford University Press 1996 ISBN 0 19 282516 X Can Jane Eyre Be Happy More Puzzles in Classic Fiction Oxford University Press 1997 ISBN 0 19 283309 X Where Was Rebecca Shot Puzzles Curiosities and Conundrums in Modern Fiction Weidenfeld amp Nicolson 1998 ISBN 978 0297841463 Who Betrays Elizabeth Bennet Further Puzzles in Classic Fiction Oxford University Press 1999 Henry V War Criminal amp Other Shakespeare Puzzles w Cedric Watts Oxford University Press 2000 ISBN 0 19 283879 2 The Literary Detective 100 Puzzles in Classic Fiction Oxford University Press 2000 ISBN 978 0192100368 omnibus edition Last Drink to LA Faber and Faber 2001 ISBN 978 0 571 20855 5 Literary Lives Intimate Biographies of the Famous by the Famous Oxford University Press 2001 ISBN 978 0198604068 editor Reading the Decades Fifty Years of British History Through the Nation s Bestsellers BBC Books 2002 ISBN 978 0563488101 Stephen Spender The Authorized Biography Viking 2004 ISBN 978 0670883035 How to Read a Novel A User s Guide Profile 2006 ISBN 978 1861979469 The Boy Who Loved Books A Memoir John Murray 2007 ISBN 978 0 7195 6431 4 Bestsellers A Very Short Introduction Oxford University Press 2007 ISBN 978 0199214891 Curiosities of Literature A Book lover s Anthology of Literary Erudition Random House 2008 ISBN 9781905211975 So You Think You Know Jane Austen A Literary Quizbook Oxford University Press 2009 ISBN 978 0199538997 with Deirdre Le Faye 50 Literature Ideas You Really Need to Know Quercus 2010 ISBN 978 1848660601 or US edition How Literature Works 50 Key Concepts Oxford University Press 2011 ISBN 978 0199794201 Love Sex Death and Words Surprising Tales from a Year in Literature Icon Books 2010 ISBN 978 1848311640 with Stephen Fender Lives of the Novelists A History of Fiction in 294 Lives Profile Books 2011 ISBN 978 1846681578 Stephen Spender New Selected Journals 1939 1995 Faber amp Faber 2012 ISBN 978 0571237579 editor with Lara Feigel The Connell Guide to F Scott Fitzgerald s Great Gatsby Connell Publishing 2012 ISBN 978 1907776014 with Jolyon Connell The Connell Guide to Charles Dickens s Great Expectations Connell Publishing 2012 ISBN 978 1907776038 with Jolyon Connell The Connell Guide to Jane Austen s Emma Connell Publishing 2012 ISBN 978 1907776137 with Jolyon Connell The Dickens Dictionary An A Z of Britain s Greatest Novelist Icon Books 2012 ISBN 978 1848313910 A Little History of Literature Yale University Press 2013 ISBN 978 0300186857 The Connell Guide to Virginia Woolf s Mrs Dalloway Connell Publishing 2014 ISBN 978 1907776267 with Susanna Hislop How to be Well Read Random House Books 2014 ISBN 978 1847946409 Jumbo The Unauthorised Biography of a Victorian Sensation Aurum Press 2014 ISBN 978 1781312445 How Good is Your Grammar Short Books 2015 ISBN 978 1780722573 The War on the Old Biteback 2016 ISBN 978 1785901713 Orwell s Nose A Pathological Biography Reaktion Books 2016 ISBN 978 1780236483 The War on the Young Biteback 2018 ISBN 978 1785903397 The Connell Guide to Jane Austen s Mansfield Park Connell Publishing 2018 ISBN 978 1907776304 with Jolyon Connell Literary Landscapes Charting the Worlds of Classical Literature Black Dog amp Leventhal 2018 ISBN 978 0316561822 General editor Rogue Publisher The Prince of Puffers The Life and Works of the Publisher Henry Colburn EER 2018 ISBN 978 1911204558 The Secret Trollope Anthony Trollope Uncovered EER 2019 ISBN 978 1912224456 Monica Jones Philip Larkin and Me Her Life and Long Loves Weidenfeld amp Nicolson 2021 ISBN 978 1474620185 Triggered Literature Cancellation Stealth Censorship and Cultural Warfare Biteback 2023 ISBN 978 1785908170References edit Who s Who 2002 J A Sutherland 1973 Thackeray at work PhD thesis hdl 1842 17669 40 years on retirement thoughts The Guardian Higher education 5 May 2004 Longman Companion to Victorian Fiction 2nd edition 2009 ISBN 978 1 4082 0390 3 Crown Sarah 17 November 2005 Shkspr in2 txt wnt hlp w hmwk bt wil mk us laf The Guardian Retrieved 14 November 2023 Milmo Cahal 17 November 2005 Literature s gr8 txts edited 4 the mobile generation The Independent Retrieved 14 November 2023 Reynolds Nigel 5 January 2005 Protests at infuriating Booker judge The Daily Telegraph Retrieved 10 May 2018 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title John Sutherland author amp oldid 1187612216, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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